Preface

This book is intended as a guided tutorial for learning how to use R in a typical introductory course in Statistics. It was designed specifically for students in Stat 311 at the University of Washington (UW), as preparation for the data lab assignments. Comments, suggestions and contributions are welcome, email us.

Quickstart

If you would like to jump in and are already comfortable with installing applications on your computer, you just need to install R, RStudio, and then, from the R command line, install several packages with the following command:

install.packages(c("tidyverse", "scatterD3", "DescTools", "GGally", "BSDA", "asbio"))

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Prof. Martina Morris and Michael Karcher for leading and managing the project that gave rise to this book.

Thanks also to Eli Guarie, who drafted some of the first materials, and to the numerous Stat 311 TAs over the years who have contributed additional examples.